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Definition of religious : 1. A person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; a monk or friar; a nun.
2. Belonging to a religious order; bound by vows.
3. Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.
4. Possessing, or conforming to, religion; pious; godly; as, a religious man, life, behavior, etc.
5. Scrupulously faithful or exact; strict.

Synonyms:

liturgical, atheistic, agnostic, fervid, ascetic, angel, blessing, blazing, phantasmal, hot-blooded, god-fearing, thorough, divine, sainted, charged, torrid, minute, passional, supernatural, article of faith, spectral, passionate, careful, perfervid, bless, canonical, pietistic, blasphemy, ethical, pontifical, devotional, moral, emotional, reverential, fiery, pietistical, sacred, ardent, saintly, scrupulous, ghostlike, angelic, interfaith, secular, sacrosanct, unworldly, warm, observant, impassioned, feverish, flaming, fanatic, churchly, incandescent, churchlike, blaspheme, spiritual, puritanical, unearthly, burning, intense, ghostly, religion, churchgoing, worldly, warm-blooded, church, red-hot, blasphemous, methodical, superheated, glowing, ecclesiastical, clerical, vehement, apparitional, priestly, absolution, demonstrative, archangel, sacerdotal

dogmatic, faithful, conforming, believing, ideological, traditional, orthodox

doctrinal, catechetic, theological

godly, devoted, prayerful, pious, devout, cultist, sanctified, obedient, sanctimonious, solemn, superstitious, worshipful, dutiful, holy, holier-than-thou, Christian, reverent

Usage examples:

• They believed, as the people believed of them- and the belief was stronger as the religious feeling was more intense- that they stood in a nearer and closer relation to Jehovah. - "The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)", Max Duncker.
• More marvelous than all, it was said that he was even religious. - "The Young Man and the World", Albert J. Beveridge.
• He wanted her certainly to be a good woman, and a religious woman; he did not want her to be extravagant. - "A Red Wallflower", Susan Warner.